Så er der godt nyt til alle Wes Andersons fans: Bogen 'The Wes Anderson Collection' er netop udkommet. Bogen er i coffee-table format og hylder filmskaberen med det efterhånden imponerende CV, der tæller film som 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou', 'Rushmore' og 'The Darjeeling Limited'.
The Wes Anderson Collection guider læseren gennem Andersons film og karriere. Den er fyldt med billeder og illustrationer, og bogens tekst forløber som en lang samtale mellem filmkritikeren Matt Zoller Seitz, der også er forfatteren bag, og Wes Anderson selv. Billeder og tekst er selvfølgelig designet i tråd med Wes Andersons ultragennemførte og legesyge koncepter.
Vulture har et uddrag fra bogens interview, hvor Wes Anderson blandt andet fortæller, at mange af skuespillerne, deriblandt Gene Hackman, arbejdede gratis i 'The Royal Tenenbaums':
Gene Hackman — it was always your dream for him to play Royal?
"It was written for him against his wishes."
I’m gathering he was not an easy person to get.
"He was difficult to get."
What were his hesitations? Did he ever tell you?
"Yeah: no money. He’s been doing movies for a long time, and he didn’t want to work sixty days on a movie. I don’t know the last time he had done a movie where he had to be there for the whole movie and the money was not good. There was no money. There were too many movie stars, and there was no way to pay. You can’t pay a million dollars to each actor if you’ve got nine movie stars or whatever it is — that’s half the budget of the movie. I mean, nobody’s going to fund it anymore, so that means it’s scale."
Bogen har selvfølgelig fået sin egen trailer. Se den her:
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